Daniel sullivan



(No Model.)

D. SULLIVAN.

PULLEY CRANE FOR GLOTHE$ LINES.

Patented Dec'. 12,

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL SULLIVAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM SLACK,

OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,958,dated December 12, 1882,

Application filed June 19,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL SULLIVAN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful .Improvements in Pulley-Cranes for Clothes-Lines; and

I do hereby declare that the following is afull,

of clothes lines and fastenings used in the windows of dwellings, consists in the combination,with the crane-frame having a vertical bar formed with a shoulder serving as a bearing, of a hook provided with a brace-arm and journal-eyes arranged upon the vertical bar about midway between the pivots of the crane, as will be hereinafter morefully set forth. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved pulleycraneapplied to a window, illustrating it as swung into the room to facilitate the placing of the clothes upon theline. vation, on an enlarged scale, of the crane when swung out from the window, with the rope thrown over the slack-hook to maintain its ten sion.

A is the beam, B the post or upright bar, and G the brace-bar, of the crane. The post B is supported and pivoted, top and bottom, in eyes formed in lugs D D projecting from a plate, E, adapted to be secured to the outside of the window-frame.

lt' preferred, the upright postmay be fitted, top and bottom, with hooks adapted to hook into the eyes D D, orinto eyebolts to be screwed into the window-casing, dispensing withthe plate E. I l.

The crane swinging upon the hooks will admit of ready detachment therefrom when required. y 1

These devices are all well known, and my improvement may be adapted to and employed with any form of swinging arm properly sup ported and pivoted to the outer frame of the window to swing in and out through the window-casing, so that the outer free end of the arm may project into the room.

The letter F represents the upward-bent Fig. 2 is an elehook, journaled to the post B of the crane. The hook F is stayed and braced to resistthe heavy strain thereon by means of an arm, f, which is carried down parallel with the post and journaled thereto, as shown in the drawings, the hook thus braced being upheld at the proper point about midway between the pivots of the crane by means of an annular offset or shoulder, it, formed upon the post.

A pulley, G, is secured to the outer end of the beam A, and the clothes-line K is led thence in an endless chain around a second pulley fixed at a suitable point outside of the window, the line being long enough to permit the beam to swing freely into the window. A long hook, L, is loosely suspended from the beam to facilitate swinging it in and as a device for securing the same when it is swung into the room, the hook being adapted to engage a suitable eye fixed on the inside of the window-casingfor the purpose, as shown in Fig. 1. I

In operation, the window being opened, the beam A is swung around into the room, bringing the pulley G and the line K with it. The line may now be lifted off from the hook F and left hanging slack and free, as shown in Fig. 1, to run easily over the pulleys, and the clothes can be hung thereon inthe room without reaching outof the window and without exposure or inconvenience to the person using the apparatus. upon the line and run out, as required, the line is lifted up over the hook F, (see dotted line, Fig. 1, and see Fig. 2,) and the beam may then After the clothes have been placed be swung out to allow the window to be closed fact, to fix and lock the line by doubling it around the hook, as shown in Fig. 2.

By this described organization and arrangement the hook is placed in such a position that it is easily reached, whereas when placed at the top it becomes difficult for a weak woman to lift the line filled with clothes on accountof the necessary height, and the advantage of mounting the hook upon the vertical rod is apparent to those having occasion to use these lines.

I claim as my invention-- In a clothes-line hanger, the combination, In testimony whereof Ihave signed myname with the crane-frame having the vertical bar B, to this specification in the presence of two sub; formed with the shoulder h serving as a bearscribing witnesses.

ing, of the hook F, provided with the brace- DANIEL SULLIVAN. 5 arm f, and journal eyes arranged upon the ver- Witnesses: tical bar B about midway between the pivots JOHN A. ELLIS,

of the crane, substantially as described. DAVID BURR. 

